Big Data Challenges

Big Data, an umbrella term for the explosion in the quantity and diversity of high frequency digital data. The Big Data may be logs, mobile-banking transactions, online user generated content such as blog posts and Tweets, online searches, satellite images, etc.- into actionable information requires using computational techniques to unveil trends and patterns within and between these extremely large socioeconomic datasets. These data hold the potential - to allow decision makers to track development progress, improve social protection, and understand where existing policies and programmers require adjustment.